SameShot: Progress Photos

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About this app

Take the same photo every time. SameShot puts your last shot on the camera as a faint ghost, so today's progress photo lines up with the one before it. Same angle, same distance, same frame. Your before and after actually looks like a before and after.

Most progress pics fail for one reason. You stood somewhere different. A bit closer, a bit to the left, camera a bit lower, and eight weeks of real change turns into two photos that just look like two photos.

The ghost overlay

Your previous photo sits faded over the live camera. Move until you match it, then shoot. Drag the opacity from 0 to 100% if the ghost is too strong or too faint. That is the whole trick. Three seconds, and the progress photo lands on the same angle as the last one.

Auto capture

Turn it on and stop tapping. SameShot watches the frame and fires the shutter the moment you are lined up.

Face mode for daily selfies

Start a face project and SameShot locks onto your face, not the room behind you. Your daily selfie lands in the same spot whether you shoot it in the kitchen or a hotel. This is the mode for a glow up timeline, skin and acne progress, beard growth, or a hair transplant tracked month by month.

What people track with it

• Gym progress, bulking, cutting and body recomp
• Weight loss, month by month
• Glow up timelines and daily selfie timelapse
• Skin and acne progress
• Beard growth from week one to full beard
• Hair growth, hairline and transplant recovery
• Pregnancy bump photos, week by week
• Braces, aligners and smile progress
• Babies, toddlers and pets growing up
• Gender transition timelines
• Post surgery, physical therapy and tattoo healing
• Home renovation, remodels and DIY builds
• Garden beds, seedlings and plant growth timelapse

Features

• Ghost overlay camera with adjustable opacity
• Auto capture that shoots the second you are aligned
• Face mode that locks to your face, not the room
• Before and after slider you drag with your thumb
• Timelapse reels at 1080 x 1920 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok
• Separate projects for front, side and back, each with its own ghost
• Daily reminders and a streak counter
• Self timer for hands free shots
• App Lock with fingerprint, face or PIN

How it works

1. Make a project for the thing you are tracking
2. Take the first photo
3. Come back tomorrow. Line up with the ghost, or let auto capture do it
4. Drag the slider to compare, then export a timelapse reel to share

Your photos stay on your phone

No account. No sign up. Nothing uploads to a server. Every photo stays in local storage on your device. Turn on App Lock and SameShot asks for your fingerprint, face or PIN before it opens. Progress photos are personal, and plenty of them get taken in a bathroom mirror. We built it that way on purpose.

Questions people ask

Does it work offline?
Yes. Everything happens on the phone. No connection needed to shoot, compare or export.

Can I use photos I already have?
Yes. Import them and they slot into the timeline by date.

Can it shoot without me touching the screen?
Two ways. Auto capture fires when you are aligned, and the self timer counts down.

How often should I take a progress photo?
Once a day suits face, skin and beard growth. Once a week is plenty for gym progress and weight loss. Each project keeps its own reminder time and streak.

Can I make a daily selfie timelapse?
Yes. Face mode aligns on your face, then the reel export stitches the run into one video.

Does it work for things that are not people?
Yes. Renovations, gardens, seedlings, van builds, paintings, anything that changes slowly. Prop the phone in the same spot and the ghost does the rest.

What do the videos export as?
A 9:16 timelapse reel at 1080 x 1920, sized for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and TikTok.

Start today. In six weeks you will have something to look at.

What’s new

Play your progress in the app, no export needed. Video export is far faster and the options are much simpler: one speed slider, with the rest tucked under Advanced. Burn the date, day count or week count into videos and photos. More accurate alignment, especially for full body shots. Reminders can now follow a weekly schedule and skip days you have already shot.